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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people applied to study undergraduate degrees in (a) law, (b) medicine, (c) engineering, (d) nursing, (e) education and (f) dentistry at higher education institutions in London in each year since 1992; and if he will make a statement. [136791] Alan Johnson: Information for the years 1992 and 1993 are not available centrally. The available information for the years 1994 to 2002 covers all applicant numbers to full time and sandwich first degrees through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) to institutions in Greater London and is shown in the table. For students entering teacher training courses, there has been a progressive shift over many years from BEd to PGCE courses; only the BEd courses are covered by UCAS. Following the Roberts Review, which looked into the supply of people with science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills, we have introduced a number of initiatives designed to improve staffing and the teaching environment of these subjects, including additional funding for pay and for the development of university science infrastructure. Applicants 1 through UCAS to full time and sandwich first degree courses in Greater London, by selected subjects _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year of entry 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Subject Law 10,30 3 9,747 8,645 8,599 8,834 8,412 8,408 8,246 9,382 Medicine 7,745 7,883 8,053 7,850 7,756 6,959 5,849 5,702 6,135 Engineering'2' 14,64 3 12,06 9 10,113 9,986 9,976 9,324 8,884 8,976 11,736 Nursing 1,480 1,825 1,735 2,061 1,738 1,755 2,111 2,232 2,014 Education13' 13,21 1 20,50 2 16,883 11,291 10,459 8,372 7,771 6,939 4,239 Dentistry 1,394 1,568 1,620 1,655 1,488 1,210 1,078 872 891 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Since 1996 each student has been able to make up to six applications; prior to this each student could make up to eight applications. In the tables, applicants are counted once under each subject to which they applied. 2 Includes those applying to general, civil, mechanical, aerospace, electronic, electrical, production, manufacturing, chemical, process and energy engineering and naval architecture. 3 Not all of the subjects within this group are teacher training courses. During the years shown in the table the courses included under in this group have varied: in 1995, Sports science, Leisure studies and Recreation Management were added some of these were re-allocated to other subject group in 1996, and the remainder re-allocated in 1997.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

413 c1499-500W;413 c1495-6W; 136791

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Admissions Dentistry Law Higher education Engineering Nurses Medicine Teachers Training Students

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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